Clippers Broadcasters’ Ironic Suspension

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• Jukai Posted: Nov.23 at 9:15 am
  That’s the most boring kind of racially offensive. The “I know nothing about these people but I’m a broadcaster so I’m gonna sort of wing it” racially offensive. They probably had no idea what the hell they were doing wrong.

• Mo Charlo Posted: Nov.23 at 9:21 am
  Who was watching Clippers v. Grizz?

• JoeMaMa Posted: Nov.23 at 9:36 am
  Why did Lawler get suspended? I can see Smith, but Lawler not so much.

• 360vue Posted: Nov.23 at 9:55 am
  For a suspension I was expecting something worthwhile, to read that is… That dumb as fcuk Smith deserves the suspension… but come on, I second Jukai, that is just the ‘most boring kind’ of offense ever, considering they were trying to be funny thats just so so pathetic.

• niQ Posted: Nov.23 at 10:08 am
  “They probably had no idea what the hell they were doing wrong.” Yea. Ignorance.

• YKnot Posted: Nov.23 at 10:10 am
  Yeah, I was expecting a Jimmy the Greek type comment. This is just stupid!

• KHALID SALAAM Posted: Nov.23 at 10:12 am
  Is this all they got suspended for? not much really…

• dsenyard Posted: Nov.23 at 11:03 am
  Not sure what the actions of a tv company have to do with the actions of the NBA.
  Fox can’t suspend Sterling, he doesn’t work for them.
  And the NBA didn’t suspend these broadcasters.
  David Stern needs to get on his job though regarding Sterlig. His silence is damning.

• UnRel Posted: Nov.23 at 12:14 pm
  smith shouldn’t be suspended.. just cause he says that borat should play the guy in a movie?.. how is that racially offensive?.. so silly.. someone should email the boss of the guy who complained.. and get him fired for actually sitting though a clippers/griz game.. who does that?

• james Posted: Nov.23 at 1:17 pm
  AHAHahH thats hilarious i love racism he does look like borats brother lol lol lol

• Jackie Moon Posted: Nov.23 at 1:57 pm
  Mo Charlo made me laugh.

• 360vue Posted: Nov.23 at 2:45 pm
  @UnRel Smith does deserve the suspension; just for being an unfunny moron… I wouldn’t class it as any form of racism, but such a statement is going to cause offense and thats the issue in this political correct world. For someone who has a public medium of communication, he needs to show more smarts and that is what the suspension is about… giving him a reminder of such a fact and allowing him to think about his public role, they didnt have many other options; either a simple telling off, or a sacking, seems they took the middle road.

• DJ Posted: Nov.23 at 4:31 pm
  this is really absurd. they pointed out that haddadi looked like borat, which is true. they said the iranians can pass the ball…wow, that’s really awful isn’t it? even if they were making fun of him, it was because he sucks and he’s a benchwarmer on one of the worst teams in the league. i agree with anyone who says smith should be fired, though, but only because he’s bad at his job. overall, however, this incident isn’t even worth mentioning, and anyone who’s offended should just man up.

• Kyle Posted: Nov.23 at 5:45 pm
  Yeah, they seemed excited when he made the slick pass. It didn’t seem like it was mean spirited at all. Also they just seemed shocked that there was a player from Iran in the NBA, and announcers always mispronounce names of foreigners(that’s what they were joking about.) They weren’t trying to be offensive.

• DJ and Kyle are stupid Posted: Nov.23 at 6:57 pm
  @ Kyle: You’re an idiot. The fact that they didn’t know they were being offensive is even worse. I can’t believe you’re actually trying to downplay this.
  @ DJ: He sucks at basketball so they should have made fun of his ethnicity? He’s better than you are, so we should start making WonderBread jokes and calling you h0nkey? Hey, if we tell you to go back to your trailer park, you should just man up because you suck at basketball. Yeah, shut up already, redneck.

• DJ and Kyle are stupid Posted: Nov.23 at 7:00 pm
  By the way, I’m not r@cist to anyone, black, Asian, white, or Hispanic: only trying to prove a point. That bullsh!t stereotyping-while acting like you didn’t know-needs to stop. Its NOT okay.

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Nov.23 at 7:03 pm
  For people like Khalid trying to downplay this incident, you’ve got to be kidding me. Whether or not those guys “intended” to insult the player, what they said was r@cist, ignorant, and just plain disrespectful. They’re lucky they weren’t fired for that kind if idiocy.

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Nov.23 at 7:03 pm
  Kyle and DJ are both idiots.

• Yazz Posted: Nov.23 at 11:05 pm
  Borat is not even from Iran but from Kazakhstan…

• Dave Posted: Nov.24 at 2:27 am
  How is it racist?
  1) Making jokes about someone based on their ethnicity, not their character, is racist.
  2) He’s not Borat and he doesn’t look like Borat. Borat, the character, is from Khazakstan. Sasha Baron Cohen, the actor, is Jewish with a European heritage. None of these places is Iran. They didn’t even get the racial/ethnic stereotype right, which is EVEN WORSE. Kind of like making Stupid Texan jokes when Steve Nash handles the ball, y’know? Conclusion? These two men are idiots, not funny and it’s unsurprising they work for the Clippers… or Donald Sterling, for that matter.

• Dave Posted: Nov.24 at 2:29 am
  Probably the only funny thing about this, actually, is those two guys were stupid enough to mistake an Iranian for a guy whose family live in Israel.
  That’s actually quite an amusing irony.

• 360vue Posted: Nov.24 at 8:20 am
  look. on an interpersonal basis this probably just another comment made in jest with no offense taken, which is why I suspect some of you can’t see the issue here. but given that this guy is a paid professional and yet has somehow enabled himself to make inflammatory remarks is completely NEEDLESS, he gets paid to do a specific job but has instead enabled a storm inside a teacup over a set of fairly ignorant comments.
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  @Dave ‘Making jokes about someone based on their ethnicity, not their character, is racist.’ So making look-a-like references about Iranian looking like a Kazakh isnt potentially offensive? Most Americans would be offended if they got called Canadian in some brash, “trying” to be funny remark… so get a grip and realise the context of the situation

• Dave Posted: Nov.25 at 1:58 am
  You know, I have no idea what that is supposed to mean, 360.

• Matt Raft Posted: Dec.1 at 12:32 am
  Lawler and Smith should be suspended. Imagine this scenario: Smith: There’s Najera coming onto the floor. Lawler: That’s the player from Mex-eee-ko, right? Smith: Is he from the real Mex-eee-ko, or the new one, right here in New Mexico? Lawler: Ha ha, are you sure he isn’t the older brother of Slowpoke Rodriguez? Smith: If they ever make a movie about him, they should get a Norteno or Sureno to play him. Wow, nice steal…those Mexicans can really steal the ball, can’t they?